want JMenu visible after JMenuItem click

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Raymond Cruz - 04 Oct 2005 18:02 GMT

I would like my JMenu to stay visible after certain JMenuItem selections are
clicked. In particular, I want my JMenu to have two ButtonGroups of
JRadioButtonMenuItems. It makes sense for the user to be able to make a
selection from each group without the menu disappearing after each
selection. I would include an "Exit" item that would dismiss the menu. I
could not determine how to do this from either the docs or NG posts.

RC

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Oliver Wong - 04 Oct 2005 20:01 GMT

>I would like my JMenu to stay visible after certain JMenuItem selections
>are
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> selection. I would include an "Exit" item that would dismiss the menu. I
> could not determine how to do this from either the docs or NG posts.

Don't have any experience in attempting this, but my first attempt would
probably be to override the mouse listener on the JMenu, and do my own
manual processing of the click events.

Incidentally, I think this sounds like a rather poor GUI design idea,
and violates the rule of least surprise. Have you considered putting all the
radio buttons on a JFrame which can be dismissed/hidden using a JSplitter?

- Oliver

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